'I Suffer Not a Woman to Teach'

By THOMAS BARTLETT

Sheri Klouda says she was fired from a Southern Baptist seminary
because she's not a man

The numbers tell a success story.

Over the last three decades, the percentage of female faculty
members at seminaries has more than tripled. In 1977 only 6 percent
of professors were women, according to the Association of
Theological Schools. Last year it was 22 percent. What was once
unusual has become increasingly commonplace.